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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-24
The COMPENSATION allowed by the board

The com pepsation allowed by the board
whether Il includes expenses of the office
or not, shall In no case exceed the fees OF
the office actually collected, anu the county
has M power, IL willing so 10 do, to make
up any deficiency that may exist All the
county board intended 10 do 10y Its order was
Co give the sheriff compensation 0f
-, 900 year and 50 much as might hr
necessary of the additional sums 81 S3,O0o
for deputy hire and $1,000 for travelling
expenses, If u sufficient sum for that pur.
pose could be- realized from The Tees ana
emoluments OF the office, butn"t otherwise
ANY contract IL do more on the part oi thr
county would have been without authority
of law and Of no binding obligation Your
committee Il satisfied thnt the allowances
AS liyed are ample when juiiciousIy rN-
pended, and that tie collection OF ices IN
the office as shown 10y the semi-annual re-
port, do not by my means warrant an IN
crease, either Of pay of deputies or travel
Ing expenses,
All of which Is respectfully submitted
w. II. NORTON, Chairman.
B. r. HnTABRAND,
>. ;. THOMPSON.
Supervisor MaierhOier, chairman com.
mittee on inaHce, submitted the report OF
said committee, which was adopted and Is
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, dc: Your committee on
finance respectfully report that they have
examined all the accounts OF the Treasurer
for the year last past, together with items
of Indebtedness found on record in the
Clerks otlice,--make the following report
10 your Honorable Board, AS correct state.
ment of the county finance, covering pc
riod from September 18th, 1886, TO Sept
18th, 1887:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-24
B. F. LINCOLN.
Attorney at Lar.
EINAIi SE.I"rl IL NJ l., n T.--EsTATg OF

IN T
i PETER c. AppIs. DscEAsEp.-Notice is hereby
given TO all persons interested in said estate that the
undersigned Administrator OF the estate of said Peter
c. Adds deceased. win appear before the Probate
Court of the county of La sale and state Of illinois, at
the County Court House, In Ottawa, in said county,
Monday the nth day OF october, A D. 1887, for the
purpose rendering account of his proceedings in
the administration of said estate for the final settle
ment
Dated at Ottawa, this 18th day of September 1857.
JULIUS j. CARTER,
ATTEST: HENRY HELMIG. Administrator.
Clerk Probate Court, La Sale Co.. Ill. sepl1-Sw
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-24

DIR. Bigelows stomach and liver pills are
superior to al others. Price 25 C. of f. Y
Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-24

FfCy acres OF corn. average pusges per
Thirty acres OF oats. average bushels per
Eleven acres Of potatoes M w,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-24

Township 81. 9-IIgh School $50
Township 8j, SHigh School s,H
CITY OF EarYilleL ibrnry... .................. 10
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
To Keep Away Creditors.

Creditors are a species Of parasite, in
testing the human race, usually, brought
ON by luxurious living. Persons who
are troubled with them may free them
selves by the bankruptcy treatment; but
this always leaves an unpleasant irri-
tation behind, and spots that are never
effaced. Take water instead of beer;
toss the cigar-case into the fireplace;
eat mutton instead of venison. and NUT
ton broth instead of turtle soup; if needs
be clean your own boots and shoes, and
brush your own clothes. Employ time
profitably. Never borrow, seldom lend.
Avoid betting and gaming. Keep reg
ular accounts, and examine your posi-
ton from day to day, determining tc
eat nothing that is unpaid for, nor to
allow your tailor or dressmaker to say
that the garments you wear are not
your own. By this process you will
soon get rid of the annoyance, and
your mental and bodily health will won
derfully improve. Leader.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
A Hideous Museum.

Among the numerous collectors of
curiosities of every kind who abound in
Paris, there is one wealthy virtuoso
who amuses himself by collecting
deaths heads and skeletons fantastical-
ly carved or modelled in marble. earth
enware, wood or precious stones. These
he has gathered together in kind of
museum of death, which at first sight
seems hideous and 'macabre," but on
closer inspection proves highly inter
esting. Some of the heads have been de-
tached from those old medieval rosary
beads which were usually ornamented
on one side, with the profile of king
Or saint, and on the other with the
trimming face of a skeleton. One o.
he most hideous, yet at the same time
most artistically executed, of the fig
ures is that of skeleton engaged in
.aking from off his bones the icon.
| lueror worms" which have been claim
ing him as their own. The collector
has given aIugubrious reality to the
objects in his museum by placing g here
md there among then the skulls o.
lead women.-Paris Cor. London 1ele-
| grdDh.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
VINO is the Great Man?

1t is not the habit of people to suppose that
a great merchant or financier ranks with a
general who has won battles, but it not I'M
commonly happens that the general is mere
granny outside of his profession, and that
even the battles to which he owes his celebrity
were won as much by accident as by skillful
design. AS to the display of courage called
for by war, it is not greater than men engaged
In the life saving service, firemen and engi-
neers and the police force are constantly
called upon to exercise. While it is rot UNI
natural that commanders of the first rank
should be admired, it is certain that there is
a good deal of vulgar and unnecessary toady-
ism to epaulets In general. Commonplace
military officers won't compare with good
mechanics in very many admirable traits,
and they cut too wide swath socially
Pittsburg Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
Importance of the Proposed British Amer
lean and Hong Kong Cable Line.

Importance of the Proposed British Amer
lean and Hong Kong Cable Line.
The time is not distant when the
whole globe will be covered with net
work of telegraph wires, Nearly all
commercial ports on every continent
are now in communication with the
centers of trade in Europe and Amer
lea. The last great gap is about to be
filed up by the laying of cables under
the Pacific ocean. A company of Brit
ish capitalists has been organized to
Law a cable from Vancouver. b. c., to
Hong Kong, China. There will be
branches and connections with Japan
and the principal islands of the Pacific
ocean. The Importance of this multi
plicaton of verbal communication
between different parts of the world
can not be overestimated. For one
thing, it will probably lay the basis for
universal language-a Geographic
code will be established that can be read
by operators the world over. Then, as
has been frequently pointed out, mer-
camille profits arc reduced to a mini
! mum WHeH kHoWlc'iSo VA PiioOS III
the various markets is flashed in
simultaneously from the buying to the
selling marts of trade. The enormous
profits of former periods was simply an
insurance against the risks of sending
cargoes to distant ports in ignorance
of the prices that might prevail wher
the vessels reached their destinations
There are also those who dream tina
this instantaneous communication be
tween one end of the earth and the
other may bring about single gov
eminent for the whole globe, and thus
usher in the era when peace will pre-
vail, and industry be the one materia
pursuit of mankind. The labor ques
ton can never be settled until there i
an agreement all over the world as t.
what the workingmen' share of tn
aggregate production shall be. Dem
crest s Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
Value of a Good Name.

A Chinaman, who wished to secure
work on railroad where most of the
.xcavatois were Irish. presented HIM
self to the superintendent of the works
and asked for a job. "You heap like
me word" said he.
what do you want to do9"
II makee lailload | keepee wash
house alice same. no care"
whats your nameP'
"My name Patlick D Latfaty!
Patrick o Rafferty,! Now, that is
stealing a name
"Welly goot name'
"Oh, come, Hop Key, or whatever
your name is. what did you give me an
Irish name forp'
"If no hab Patlick O'Laffaty faw
my name, no ketchce contact! You
see?' Ioutbs Companion
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
The New Style Of Jersey.

A new style of jersey has round
yoke, extending to the shoulders, to
which the back is attached in three box
plaits, which extend to the bottom OF
the short basque and are laid in so that
they touch at the waist making a jaunty
position below the belt. In front, there
are two box-plaits on each side. The
jersey is dark blue; the yoke is red, and
is trimmed with coarse black soutache,
the rows placed quite closely together
at the top of the standing collar, and
spreading apart toward the bottom OF
the yoke showing the red between.
The sleeves are trimmed with red jersey
cloth and black braid. to match.
orest's Monthly.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
md nerfect atmosphere of the Alps.

and perfect atmosphere of the Alps. J
could see far down into the valley,
thousands of feet below me, and J
thought at times in the stiffness
heard the flowing of the rapid river
| soon forgot the annoyances OF the
GAO n, the rafting cow-bells, and the
hard poles, in admiration of a scent
such as may never see again!
At four o'clock the herdsmen rose;
the stone hut containing the little dairy
was opened, and by daylight had
been initiated into the mysteries OF
making the "Schabziger cheese" The
process was not greatly different from
that used in making other Swiss
cheese. 1t differed in detail, but the
great secret lay in the use of certain
herb, which gives the cheese its deli
cious flavor and peculiar color. This
herb does not grow in America, nor is
it to be found anywhere outside OF the
little district of Laachen, by the Glarus
Alps. 1t is called cheese clover, OIL
meltttOtus cOeruJed.
things. the shape of teacups, and they
are shipped from Glarus as great deli
cacies to many quarters OF the
earth. Our common sage cheese is an
imitation of them. When the autumn
comes, these senns and their herd o
cows will go down the mountain for the
winter The men will wear wreaths o
roses, and the pretty cows will have
festoons of roses around their horns
and all the villagers will turn out t.
welcome them, with song and dance.
1t is the harvest of the dairy. Th
COWS do not belong to the six senns OIL
the mountain only; they are the prop
erty of all the villagers, and the COW
that is reported as having produced tn
most milk while on the Alps. will b
rewarded with new bell, and will b
called the queen cow of the village TO
year. -S III. NJ. Byers, IN Youth
Companion.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
THE FREE PRESS.
GRANGHvILLE, IDAHO.
EASTER MORN.

Ere yet the shadowy mountain-tops
Were silvered with the light,
Or off the lilies slipped the drops
Won from the dewy night;
Ere yet the mornings incense curled
o er the glimmeI7g Galilee,
The grave had yielded to the world
Its awful mystery.
Through all the night the pallid stars
Watched trembling DER the tomb,
And Oiivet wrapped all its scars
Deep in the fragrant gloom;
The world one instant held its breath,
When from the flashing Heaven
Gods angel swept, more strong than death
And deaths dark bonds were riven.
Forth from the sepulchres embrace
Behold the Conqueror come!
o morning sun, unvail thy facet
o earth, no more be dumb
From century to century
The pecan now shall ring
o grave, where is thy victory
o death, where is thy sting?
James b. Kenyon, IN Current.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
A VERY BUSY WOMAN.

She pronounced in sounding platit1ds
Her universal gratitude,
For men Of every latitude
From the tropics to the poles;
She felt consanquinity,
A sisterly affinity,
A kind of kith-and- kinity
For all these foreign souls.
For Caledonian Highlanders,
For brutal South Sea Islanders,
For wet, and moist, and dry -landers,
For Gentle, Greek and Jew;
For Firms and for Siberians,
For Arabs and Algerians,
For Terra-del. Fuegians,
She was In q constant stew.
o, 1t worried Miss Sophronia,
Lest the men Of Patagonia,
Should all die with the pneumonia,
With the phthisic, or chills;
Yes, indeed, she worried daily,
Lest q Group or,cold should waylay
Some poor Soudanese or Malay,
Dying for the lack Of pills.
And she toiled on without measure,
And with most unstinted pleasure,
For the good of Central Asia,
And the Pagan people there;
But meantime her little sister,
Died Of a neglected blister,
But Sophronia hardly missed her,
For she had no time to spare.
$. w. Foss In lid Bits.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
How thew Dress I'm japan,

The Japanese are complaining that tho
comic opera "Mikado" has sent Japan back
twenty years in the popular opinion and es-
teem Tho Japanese have not worn or1ltal
COSTUMES for fully that length of time The
Mikado dresses like any English or American
gentleman, and so do all of his subjects, ex-
cept such of the extreme lower classes who
are too poor to afford to buy modern clothes.
Upou great court occasions the oriental spirk
comes out in gay colors and superabund'
nee of gold and jewels, but cut and desigy,
re European Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15

Brev1tfeg.
palindrome reads equally well backward
or forward, but the following stanza beats
the palindrome in that 1t reads better back
ward than forward:
Krah, krah, chit sgod cd krab
Eht sraggeb era gnimoc OF nwot;
E1nos nj sgar, emos nj SCAT,
Dna emos nj tevlev snwog.
Springfield Union.
1.-THE car is full Of alumni" whispered Mis-
Beekonstreet to her friend from the west a.
they both journeyed Cambridgeward in the
horse car "Yes," said the Chicago girl,
"and how it chokes one up, don't lit 1 won
der they do not open the ventilators. Dos
ton Commercial Bulletin
"Waiter. is this an old or a new herring
that you brought mep "Cant you tellf'
~No." "Well, then, what difference does it
make2"-Fliegende Blatter.
The tenor and the soprano Of Chicago
church were married this week. Their 40
quaintance began in the choir, and as the
happy pair meandered up the aisle the jocu-
lar organist struck up, ave met by chants.
Rambler.
"Papa," said little Jimmie Briefess. "what
do you wear when you 60 to the court house
your law suitp "Oh, no, my son" replied
the good barrister. kindly. "That is the suit
| D man putS on Wnen ne goes ndkeu Oniy tns
| clients wear that"-Burdette.
A Joint canvass-that which covers a ham.
New Orleans Picayune.
More than 1900 couplers have been patent
ed in this country, and yet there are hun
dreds Of thousands of men and women yet
unhitched. Citizen.
There was gentle ripple of merriment the
other day at a certain religious gathering
when peculiarly staid and dignified brother,
In referring to the UNCONVENTIONAL and doc
trinal change in the views Of the late Adont
ram Judson, one of the pioneer missionaries
who started for India a Congregationalist
and landed there Baptist, remarked that
the change In Judson's views occurred wher
he was half seas ver.-Springfeld Union
Coachman (who has approached Mrs Brown
for more wages)-What would your HUSBAND
say, mem, if was to ask him for a raisel
Mrs Brown (who knows her husband'
financial disposition) We'll, Henry, as neve
indulge in profanity, you must excuse m
from venturing All expression on that sub
;ect-Weif
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.
Why They Are Able to Fill Their Chairs
with Exceptionally Able Men.

Why They Are Able to FIJI Iheir Chairs
with Exceptionally Able Men.
Each of the Scottish universities COM
prises four Faculties ARTS, Medi
cine, Divinity and Law. Edinburgh
still maintains her old reputation as
one of the best medical schools in the
United Kingdom, and the law lectures
are believed to be also exceptionally
good ut Edinburgh. Only those stu
dents who are intended for the minis
try of the Church of Scotland attend
the divinity classes at any of the four
universities, the dissenting Presby-
terrain bodies having divinity halls
of their own. Divinity students always
attend four years at the carts" classes,
unless they pass preliminary exam
ination, and so escape the first year
Medical and law students, as rule,
spend only two years at Latin, Greek
and logic before they proceed to their
special studies. 1t must be understood
that ia year. means at Scotch uni
versity session of barely six
months, from the beginning of Novem-
Der till the end of April: There are, ii
is true, short summer sessions" but
these exist only for medical students.
| This arrangement of the year is neces-
sary on account of the poverty of &
large number of the students
And an incidental benefit of con.
siderable importance arises from what
seems at first sight very bad arrange
ment of the academical year. The
work of Scotch university professor
is, while it lasts, exceedingly arduous
and while some of the chairs at Edin
burgh and Glasgow are supposed to b'
worth 1000 or $4,000 year, many
of them are but poorly endowed. II
be absolutely master of ones own tim'
for six months of the year is grea
boon, and constitutes an attraction
which helps the Northern universitie
to fill their chairs with exceptionally
able men. National RevieU
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15

We will always have more or less
of the mushy and cayenne pepper
fiction, because it has its constituency,
but it will never again dominate the
great middle class of readers as it did
many years ago. The taste for the
good, if not slightly cultivated, destroys
that for the bad, and the tendency OF
the literary instinct when once aroused
is steadily upward Omaha Repabli-
can.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
H0W'S
Your Liver2

Is the Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy Liver. When the
Liver is torpid the Bow
els are sluggish and con-
stipated, the food lies
in the stomach undi-
gested, pois oning. the
blood; frequent headache
ensues; a feeling of lassi-
tude, dependency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system is de-
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
means of restoring more
people to health and
happiness by giving them
a healthy Liver than any
agency known on earth.
1t acts with extraor-
binary power and efficacy.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-15
NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED

Asa general family remedy for Dyspepsia,
Torpid Liver, Constipation, ETC.. hardly
ever use anything else, and have never
been disappointed in the effect producedi
II seems to be almost a perfect cure FOR all
diseases OF the stomach and Bowels.
w. J. MCELRoY, Macon, GA
Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23
COUNTY NEWS.
Contributed by the Special Cor
 pOndents of the .Picayune.
BO,i.htOn Buildings.

Mir. Geo. Wilson visited relatives here Sunday.
 The mill at this place is doin 2 we'll under the supervision of Mir. J. w. Adams.
 Our clever and enterprislng friend, MT. J. B, Seal, has just pur- chased a very fine four mule team, for which he paid six hundred and fifty dollars "spot cash"
 The smoke in this community has been very trying on the eyes, for sometime.
 A certain boy of 0nr acquain- tance declares and proposes to stick to his assertion, that he ac. tually saw chicken roasting on the back of a horse, while the horse was walking. Think those who have chickens, should pre- pare place for them to sleep.
 "PIC," owing to pressure of business, scarcity of news and the inclemency of the weather, we are not very much inflated with something to relate this week.
 HARD LUCK.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23
Shady Grove Skimming>.

Cool and dry.
 Smoke and fire.
 Mrs. J. C. Brown has been quite sick for several days. is thought to be some better.
 Miss Margie Dean returned from Pike county last week. where she had been visiting relatives and friends.
 Mir. Don Russell has accepted a school near OkOlona. That vicinity was fortunate ill securing the ser vices of so moral and clever a young gentleman.
 MT. Henry White and Miss Fun ma Nauderver were united m the bonds of matrimOny sh ort time since. Our wishes are that theiI troubles may all be little ones.
 Some of the school children say "the Wheelers who meet at the school house are noble chewers ond spitters, aud ornamenters oi floors, (carpeting with chewed weeds. GoUGER.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23
DIXIE.
i;oticaw Times.

Weather still dry and warm.
 Willie Jones likes Beans very well.
 Hello, Jim, has your fingers got we'll.
 Andy Camp hes got the boss pair of black mnles.
 Mat Caudle says Nr. Logan has got the best 'lasrs he ever SAW.
 The bo,s diln't kill any deer nor catch any fish last w-rl l-.oo dry.
 Hoorah for the Whepuers. Stick together; we will get there Eli.
 Where does Dr. Rorket 4l so mucf! Expect Mss Maiile is sick
 Where dees Wiley go sn mncl, l don't know. but guess Miss Mar garet knows.
 Look out tor Santa Claus, he will be snre to come Christmas; hang up your stocking, girls.
 Plenty of corn and fat pigs. We will live next year. if cholera and mortgages don't clean us up.
 Cotton is on Il boom now. Sell your cotton, boys. Strik. while 'he iron IS hot. for down sIie'll go soon.
 F. II. Herring lost his fine s,d- dle mule, last week. Wonder what Mary .Ianc will do for some. thng to ride now!
 Phiaus says he hoi.'i like ba- hirS. He has targo't,n that he was once a little fellow. Oh. he will change his notion soon.
 We had good sermon from Bro. Armstrong sunday. May God bless his efforts to preach the gospel Prayer meeting at Union churc! every Sunday night.
 Don't forget it that James Mur- rah is the overSrer of the Pres colt road, from Union church to Bodcaw post office. Jim likes It tolerably well. Jim do your hest and we will raise your wages next time.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23

Artesian water over the creek Mir. Alexander has an overhowing well at his mill.
 MT. Gam is another unlucky man. He has lost his coru and other things by ire. It Is pre- sumed that he will get help. lis d nice thing to have friends. and we should remember that friend in need is d friend indeed.
 Mr. Tom Garret now rides the cream. Look out, girls, after school closes.
 Harmony boys and girls de- serves much credit for the earnest start they have taken m their school books, and if they hold out as they started, they will win premium for good beha sior.
 Mir. Sam Robinson has prepared for cold weather. He now warns liis toes in both rooms.
 Mir. Frank Wootton has sold his rocks. and is going to work MT. Sam Wylie's land next year. I think he has made wise change
 MT. Piercv is d stirring man and good trader; also bears the name ot being Il brag farmer. Success to him, at his new home.
 DINE,